Discoveries of America is a collection of personal letters written by eighteen of the thousands of British emigrants who came to North America in the fifteen years preceding the onset of the American ...

At the same time, improved educational levels and living standards in poor parts of the world—and falling transport costs globally, thanks to new technologies—have made it increasingly possible for ...

An archive of Irish emigrant letters tells the "experience of emigrants, recorded in their own voices." Imirce is a digital repository of thousands of Irish emigrant letters sent from North ...

The administration in Asturias has allocated nearly 150,000 euros to support emigrants and their descendants in Cuba who are ...

Andrew Carnegie emigrated from Dunfermline to Pennsylvania with his family at the age of 12 in 1848. He established iron and steel companies which saw him become the richest man in America.

So many emigrants were desperate to stay in touch and the only way to do that was by letter- even if you couldn't write and your family couldn’t read, someone could write you a letter and ...

Watch The Emigrants for free with SBS On Demand, your ultimate destination for diverse entertainment. Stream now! At home on the farm in Småland, Kristina and Karl Oskar see how life is slowing down.

About 80% of people in India are Hindu, but they form only 41% of emigrants from the country, the survey on the religious composition of the world's migrants says. In contrast, about 15% of people ...